On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 04:59:52PM +0000, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote: > Ah, I see what you were saying now. It looks like it will work to me if > you think it is better stylistically. Yeah, having a function return an error *and* an I/O parameter at the same time is more complicated and error prone instead of when you have a single retval and only input parameters. I'd say. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette